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"You are a very good friend to me and you are so special to me. For your sake, I am going to put up a fight with my cousin and I will make him apologise to you for all he has done to you."
"I don't think that is a good idea, you both are not in good terms," Agnes said to him considerately.
"Do not bother about that. I do not mind jumping off a flying aeroplane for your sake," Eric lied to her, his innocent smiles deceiving her.
She blushed, she was beginning to feel so shy, "enough of your flatters, you better order for something because I am so hungry."
"Your wish is my command," Eric said viciously.
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Agnes was sitting in front of the mirror. She was tidying her hair before Ethan came in..
She did not say anything to him.
"Agnes!" He called out to her.
He walked to her and placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Please take your hands away from me," she said to him.
"Agnes!" He called her again.
"Do not touch me again Ethan," she said and stood up.
"I am so...
"It doesn't matter what you say to me now, Ethan, I will never forgive you for what you did to me earlier today," she said, walking away.
He held out her hand. "I do not know what came over me."
She frowned. "I do not care to know. Let go off me Dan," Agnes said, pulling her hand with force from his grip. Ethan let go of her hand, he left the room and went downstairs, straight to the bar cabinet right beside the sitting room.
He brought out a bottle of rum and poured it into a glass. He drank up the first glass and filled the glass up again. He kept on drinking and drinking.
"Ethan?" Nanny Mia called out to him. "What are you doing to yourself? Why have you been acting so strangely?" She asked him, feeling so concerned.
"That's none of your business, learn to stop meddling in my business. My dad paid you to assist me when I was still little, so I advise that you go and rest, I am all grown now. I do not want to disrespect you in any way, so you better leave from here." Ethan said to her, still sipping his plenty bottles of alcohol.
"Calm down Ethan, I am very much aware that you are just acting under the influence of the alcohol. The Ethan that I nurtured so well could never speak to me in this manner. Talk to me son, "what is bothering you?" Nanny Mia said amidst tears.
Ethan dropped his glass of rum"tidy up this mess," he said and left for his room.
Nanny Mia nodded her head in disagreement and disappointment to his behavior. "I know that you are troubled my boy. You have always been this quick to over react and I have always overlooked this character of yours, not because I am being paid by your father but because I understand every bit of pain you go through. You are more like a don to me," she soliloquized.
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Ethan banged his room door in frustration, the door flew open and he staggered into it. Whitney was putting on a transparent night gown. Ethan shut the door and walked to Whitney, who was staring at him in fright. He held her hand and dragged her up from the bed.
Agnes felt scared, "you have no right to touch me Ethan," she stammered, her voice a total whisper. "I do not need your annoying cries right now,.so you better stop with your pretence," Ethan roughly pulled her close to his body.
She closed her eyes, she çould smell alcohol in his mouth. "You have been drinking right?" She asked, trying so hard to free herself from him.
Ethan cupped her face, "yes I have been drinking and it is all because of you wifey," he answered in a rough tone.
"Let go of me, you are drunk," she said, still trying her best to free herself.
He held onto her shoulders, "I am not drink Agnes."
"You are drunk Ethan. You are really out of your mind. Infact you are starting to turn into a psycho," she shouted to him, on top of her voice.
He looked at angrily. He immediately bent his face to her and smashed his lips on hers. She tightened her lips together, not wanting his lips to penetrate through hers. Ethan did not let her go, he forced his way into her mouth. His tongue pried open her lips. She backed out of the kiss immediately.
"Ethan what has really come over you," she asked in tears.
"Nothing. I am your husband and I have every right over you," he reminded her.
"You are not in your right state of mind, once you become sober, I am so sure you will regret all of your dirty actions," she notified him and turned to leave.
Ethan wrapped his hands around her waist immediately, stopping her from leaving. He could feel her contours through the transparent, night gown she was wearing. His hands slowly moved down her body. "You are making me go crazy, do you have any idea about that?"
"What do you think you are doing to me?" Whitney asked, her chest panting up and down. Both Eric's words and hands were doing something to her. "Trust me Agnes, the day you will not expect, he will throw a divorce paper at your front and force you to sign on them. Then he will slowly take everything he had given to you back," she quickly remembered Eric's words to her. She panicked at this thought.
Agnes turned to Ethan. "Do you still love me?"
Ethan's expression changed as soon as he had her question. He moved back from her, "excuse me, I will be right back," he said and staggered towards the bathroom, after a few minutes, he came back. Whitney was sitting on the bed, patiently waiting for him. He approached her and knelt down in front of her.
"I am so sorry Agnes, I am aware of the fact that I have been acting so wickedly and unfairly towards you. Please forgive me," he apologized with one of his hand on hers.
Agnes stared at him in surprise, having him talk to her in this manner made her have a bit of hope that what Eric said to her was never going to happen.
"Why did you maltreat me so much, this part few days?" Agnes asked him, praying to herself that the answer he would give, was going to be a reasonable one.
"I had been so stressed out lately, that is the reason I nearly injured you. I am so sorry Agnes. I love so much," he said to me in such a romantic way.
"Please be sincere with me Ethan, do you still love me, just like you used to before we got married?" She asked him.
"I still love you a lot Agnes," he answered, making me feel so happy.